https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes Floats on Toast Construction en-us 2022-03-31 11:35:49 UTC 2022-03-31 14:40:50 UTC hello@padlet.com westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123399687 2022-03-31 11:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123399687 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123399975 2022-03-31 11:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123399975 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123417749 A compressor on the Bass is looking at the Kick, sop that when the kick comes in, the Bass volume is reduced a tiny bit, to make the Kick more impactful. Kick and Bass tend to share the same Hz, so you got to make room for the Kick to pop, so it doesn't get lost in the Bass...]]> 2022-03-31 11:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123417749 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418078 Lets say you have several BVs, but they are a little out of time, with staggered starts and ends of words.
Choose the best take.
Put a Noise Gate on the worst take/s.
Set the Gate sidechain to the best take.
Set the threshold so that the gate opens and closes when the sidechain vocal is active.
The best vocal take will now be controlling the start and stop points of the worst take/s - thereby editing them for you automatically! ]]> 2022-03-31 11:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418078 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418656 2022-03-31 11:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418656 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418800 2022-03-31 11:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123418800 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419085 2022-03-31 11:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419085 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419266 2022-03-31 11:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419266 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419781 2022-03-31 11:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123419781 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123424783 2022-03-31 11:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123424783 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123424969 2022-03-31 11:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123424969 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123511289 Name it Pink Noise
***BE SURE TO MUTE***
AND PULL DOWN THE FADER TO ZERO
!!! potential ear damage if you don't !!!]]> 2022-03-31 12:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123511289 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123515794 2022-03-31 12:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123515794 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123516994 ***!!! MAKE SURE TRACK IS MUTED !!!***]]> 2022-03-31 12:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123516994 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123519481 This low level ensures that there is plenty of headroom available to mix in]]> 2022-03-31 12:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123519481 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123521322 Unmute one by one and bring each fader up until you can 'just' hear the whole instrument above the pink noise]]> 2022-03-31 12:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123521322 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123522352 You should now have a basic quick mix, where all instruments can be heard]]> 2022-03-31 12:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123522352 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123573464 2022-03-31 13:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123573464 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123606671 Remove the sound that isn't being made - ie, sub frequencies in a voice. 
This is because there will be SOME information in there, in this example it might be rumble, which may interact badly with other instruments. ]]> 2022-03-31 13:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123606671 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123607860 2022-03-31 13:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123607860 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123617752 There's a lot of bass in here, but not much treble - so you could ditch the treble to enhance this sound, and make further space in the treble for something else]]> 2022-03-31 13:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123617752 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123630023 The guitar has had the low Hz removed, which tend to make guitar sound wooly or boomy, which makes space for the bass guitar, which has had the equivalent Hz boosted, to fill up the space made by the guitar eq.
The guitar has had the upper mid boosted, which increases punch and sharpness, and the bass has accordingly had this area reduced, to make space for the guitar in this Hz bandwidth.
The vocals have had the low bass ditched, because voices can't do subsonics (!), and had the upper mid pushed - notice, not the same area as the guitar, but stacked above it - which increases bite and clarity. The 'air' (very high Hz) are boosted to help with this, and also to fill in the gap made by the guitar, which had had those high Hz cut. 
Be sure to use your ears! The general principle of tis approach applies across the board, but every instrument / voice is different, and you want to find EQ points which make it sound nice, rather than nasty. Use the cheat sheets as starting points but don't necc. stick to them exactly. ]]> 2022-03-31 13:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123630023 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123661018 2022-03-31 14:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123661018 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123662962 And choose the drum track (ideally, the kick track only - but in this example, the drums are bounced as a group)]]> 2022-03-31 14:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123662962 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123666940 ...and, because we are sidechaining o a whole drumkit, click 'listen' on the filter]]> 2022-03-31 14:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123666940 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123667744 You will now be hearing the Drums! Because you are 'listening' to the 'sidechain' 'filter'...]]> 2022-03-31 14:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123667744 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123670448 ...until you can hear only the kick, or at least, as close as you can get it to that]]> 2022-03-31 14:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123670448 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123671607 2022-03-31 14:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123671607 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123674236 ...so that the compression only happens for a split second.
Fiddle with the threshold and ratio until the dial is taking off MAX 5 db]]> 2022-03-31 14:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123674236 westonmusic https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123678081 You will now hear the bass, as you are not listening to the sidechain anymore: fiddle with teh settings some more if the bass is dipping out too much. You are aiming for a small dip on the dial - don't worry if you can barely hear the dip in the bass audio, you only want a tiny bit anyway. Now your kick will be clearer in the mix!]]> 2022-03-31 14:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/westonmusic/mixingnotes/wish/2123678081